Dear Mr Humphrys,

“They are destroying it: pillaging our punctuation; savaging our sentences; raping our vocabulary and must be stopped.” I truly understand your frustration and hate towards the way the English language is “progressing” and the new unpredictable way of communicating in today’s modern world. However you must understand it’s been an ongoing process through the past years. The language you think is original and “English”, quite truly isn’t. For decades the way people communicate and interact with people has been changing from sign language, to Latin, to English but that doesn’t mean the language is getting any worse or getting out of hand, it just means the English language is progressing for the better and trying to fit in modern society.

You complain about “shortened” language such as “LOL” (laughing out loud),”OMW” (On my way), “CBA” (Can’t be asked) and etc when really, it actually has a positive effect on the method of communicating with someone by fastening the time of communicating, however I know you’re too afraid to leave the past and advance your own method of communicating, aren’t you? I acknowledge your opinion on the way “shortened language may not have an  effect on communication within literature but has an effect on spoken language” however I’d be surprised to see someone say “LOL” instead of laughing…

 As you may have noticed, my response to your opinions on English language has been typed up through many devices with auto-check enabled and various more advance-tech features. That doesn’t mean my English literature is poor or needs assistant. It just regulates and fastens the speed of my typing and allows me to write with less worry of grammar and spelling mistakes. That doesn’t mean the English language is being destroyed! Not in any way, it’s just another feature of modern technology and its *advancements* on our method of communication.

English language is one of many other languages that are also experiencing “modernisation” and is advancing just like any other. Due to technology and new positive impacts, languages such as Chinese have developed and adapted their whole alphabet, grammar and literature just to fit the needs of new generations. They’ve decided to make a new language which is now known as “modern Chinese” to become China’s default language to sooner or later get rid of “traditional Chinese”. They’ve done this to free people from the hassle of time being wasted on communicating and to create a language that will be able to fit society and its needs. This doesn’t result to China’s “traditional Chinese” to become inexistent, it just allows people to fit in and advance as a race.

English language will never be destroyed no matter how technology advances. The new features as time progresses that’ll be inserted into our language is still English no matter how unknowlegable and silly it seems. The same way we keep up to date with fashion and trends, is the same way English language has to adapt to fit in society. This is why I believe our English language isn’t being destroyed or overthrown.